I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
Christopher Koch
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
Kenneth Koch
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred... →
Arthur Koestler
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
Jerzy Kosinski
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
Elizabeth Kostova
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
Jon Krakauer
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the... →
Karl Kraus
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.